BTTH : From Humble Beginnings to Dou Di

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Lin Feng carefully sensed the restriction on the scroll for a moment, then suddenly released a surge of power from the center of his brow.

Vast soul power spiraled in the air before condensing into a sharp cone-shaped spike.

After a brief pause, the spike shot rapidly toward the scroll.

"Tss!"

At the moment of contact, a faint sound rang through the entire alchemy room.

That seemingly thin restriction was surprisingly able to withstand Lin Feng's soul spike.

Although the restriction managed to block the attack, under the fierce impact of the soul spike, it had become noticeably thinner.

Seeing this, Lin Feng unleashed another wave of soul power from his brow. It surged out wildly, writhing and taking form in midair, then quickly condensed into another cone-shaped spike.

"Go!"

With a low shout, the spike slammed down once more onto the scroll.

"Crack!"

After several repeated attacks, the soul seal finally failed to hold. With a crisp shattering sound, it broke into countless invisible fragments, scattering into the air.

As the restriction shattered, a pale blue light orb suddenly shot out from within.

It paused briefly in the air, then darted straight into Lin Feng's mind.

The moment it appeared, Lin Feng had already sensed it. But after using his soul power to scan the orb and confirming that it contained no danger—only textual information without any lingering soul presence—he allowed it to enter his mind unhindered.

As soon as the light orb entered his Sea of Consciousness, its glow exploded brilliantly.

Then, it transformed into a massive stream of text that clearly imprinted itself deep in his mind.

"No wonder that ancient alchemist was able to create such a powerful Dou Technique. So he had such a fortuitous encounter..." Lin Feng murmured, his expression growing increasingly astonished after absorbing all the information.

Moments later, he sighed and shook his head in pity.

"With that senior's talent, if he hadn't died, he might've had a real chance at stepping into the Dou Sheng realm. It's just unfortunate… for someone with his terrifying potential, he was born too low."

"Because of his status at birth, he wasn't able to apprentice under an eighth-tier alchemist early on. On top of that, he offended one of the Ancient Clans. If not for that, he wouldn't have ended up like this..."

That ancient seventh-tier alchemist was once the Young Patriarch of a Clan guarded by a Dou Zong-level expert.

He began cultivating Dou Qi at the age of four and became a Dou Zhe at seven.

When it came time to choose his cultivation method, his extraordinary talent for alchemy was discovered.

Soon after, his clan sent him to study under a low seventh-tier alchemist in Central Plains.

Just a few months later, he successfully refined his first-tier pill.

By the age of nineteen, he had become a sixth-tier alchemist and a Dou Huang.

It was around that time he encountered a branch member of the Yao Clan, one of the Ancient Clans, who was mocking Central Plains' alchemy methods.

Full of youthful pride and indignation, he challenged the other party to an alchemy duel—and won.

After that incident, his clan and its allied forces came under heavy suppression.

In order to prevent his master from being implicated, he voluntarily left his sect and began cultivating alone.

Without the sect's resources to support him—and with his own family not particularly powerful to begin with—his progress in alchemy slowed dramatically.

At twenty-one, he succeeded in attracting Pill Lightning and officially stepped into the seventh-tier alchemy realm.

The following year, he broke through the Dou Huang bottleneck and advanced to become a Dou Zong.

Lacking any formal inheritance of seventh-tier alchemy techniques, he began visiting major sects to seek guidance.

But fearing offense to the Yao Clan, all turned him away, and he was forced to teach himself.

By the age of thirty-one, he was already capable of refining peak seventh-tier pills.

At the same time, the Dou Zong powerhouse who served as the guardian of his family was nearing the end of his lifespan.

In order to prolong the elder's life, he successfully refined a pill to extend longevity and presented it to him.

To completely resolve this crisis, he temporarily halted his alchemy advancement and threw himself into researching the solution.

At thirty-six, after nearly depleting all of his wealth, he finally obtained a rare eighth-tier pill recipe—the Advancement Pill.

But due to his still-limited alchemy level, he found it extremely difficult to refine and could only continue studying.

At thirty-eight, he spent half of his clan's remaining assets to obtain two rare portions of Spirit Nourishment Powder.

At forty-one, he created a unique method to improve pill quality: the Pill Embrace Technique.

Using this method in conjunction with the Spirit Nourishment Powder, he astonishingly managed to refine the Advancement Pill with only seventh-tier alchemy!

At the same time, he sensed that between the Mortal Soul Realm and the Spirit Soul Realm, there was a nearly unbridgeable chasm.

After delivering the Advancement Pill to his elder, he also passed down the Pill Embrace Technique to his clan as a secret family inheritance.

Then, he left his family and began wandering in search of soul techniques or rare treasures that could help him improve his soul realm.

During his travels, he created many unique and highly practical alchemical techniques.

Most of these he sent back to his clan as secret techniques for inheritance.

Meanwhile, his Dou Qi cultivation also reached the peak of Dou Zong.

At forty-five, he finally gained the investment of a secluded Central Plains clan backed by a Five-Star Dou Zun.

Their clan leader not only married off his daughter to him but even granted him their family's treasured techniques the Mid-Grade Earth Class Dou Technique: External Avatar, and the Soul Technique: Soul Gathering Technique.

By forty-nine, he broke through the Dou Zong threshold and advanced to become a Dou Zun, with his soul realm nearly entering the Spirit Soul Realm.

However, due to the soul technique being too low in class—and lacking any corresponding natural treasures to support it—his soul still could not truly step into that higher realm.

Helpless, he set off once more to seek fateful opportunities.

Not long after, he learned of a relic left behind by a Dou Sheng.

After some deliberation, he brought several of his clan's experts, his father-in-law, and some of the in-law family's strong members to explore the ruins.

Within the relic, they found a vast number of rare treasures.

After obtaining the very scroll of Dou Technique that Lin Feng now held, they discovered a golden Heavenly Flame suspended in the central hall of the ruins.

Upon seeing the Heavenly Flame, the alchemist was overjoyed and stepped forward to retrieve it.

Unexpectedly, multiple powerful guardian magical beasts at the Dou Zun level suddenly appeared and launched a fierce assault.

Among their group, aside from himself, his father-in-law, and two other Dou Zuns, the rest were all Dou Zong.

Faced with such a disparity in strength, they were utterly powerless.

In the end, only he managed to escape—by leaping into a spatial rift created when his father-in-law self-detonated, sacrificing himself.

Everyone else perished in the Dou Sheng's relic.

After surviving the chaotic spatial flow, not only was he gravely injured, he also found himself in a remote land far from Central Plains.

In utter despair, he destroyed all of his clan's inherited techniques and Dou Techniques to prevent them from falling into others' hands.

Naturally, those secret alchemy methods he had gifted to his clan were also destroyed along with them.

After that, he left behind this orb of soul power, which recorded both the events of his life and the location of the Dou Sheng relic.

He placed a soul seal on it, then overlaid it with a Dou Qi barrier that required Dou Zun-level strength to break.

All to ensure that those too weak would not repeat his tragic fate.

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